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Monday, 21 October 2013

USA naval program of 1926 according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 21 November 1927

An item dated Washington 18 November reported that Coolidge (1) expected that some new cruisers would be build for the US Navy while the White House regularly pointed out that the naval program proposed by him in December 1926 would not be changed as a result of the failed conference at Geneva.

Note
1. John Calvin Coolidge Junior (Plymouth, Vermont 4 July 1872-Northampton, Massachusetts 5 January 1933), president of the USA between 2 August 1923-5 January 1933.